Optics meeting tips: Internal fingerprints, no cell left behind, 3-D reality
...er Knight, this panel discussion will focus on the moment these scientists knew that they had made a Nobel-worthy discovery and the way this discovery has impacted and directed their current research. (Tuesday, October 12, 7:30 a.m.) HIGHLIGHTS Following are a few of the many highlights to be discuss...Dutch study highlights crying as risk factor for child abuse
...ituation. The actual duration of crying at a given moment seems to be less relevant than the parents' perception of the crying of their infant in the long term. Furthermore, our results show that the number of infants implicated is substantial, highlighting an urgent need to teach carers of infants how to c...Ephedrine and unheralded sudden cardiac death
...xactly the same thing," Dr. Adamson said. "But the moment they developed a blockage in their heart artery, which we are able to cause reversibly, their heart rates went through the roof. It was the response to ischemia, a condition where there is a blockage of the heart's blood supply that was exaggerated b...Job-stressed women more vulnerable than men to 9/11 trauma
...ization on a massive scale in this one apocalyptic moment were compounded by the feelings of powerlessness generated by the daily experiences of interpersonal victimization," Richman said. Richman's longitudinal study began in 1996 and continues today, focusing on workplace and other life stressors and thei...Women wait longer for emergency heart treatment
...tient's arrival at the emergency department to the moment when a tiny balloon is inflated inside a clogged blood vessel to open it up. During that "door to balloon time," patients must be diagnosed, transferred to the angioplasty area or to a hospital that can do emergency angioplasty, and prepped...Safer drug prescribing for seniors in nursing homes: Canada leads the way
...critical information to the physician close to the moment of decision-making. We have an exciting opportunity now to put this technology to the test and see if it makes a significant difference in reducing adverse drug events." How CPOE/CDS works? The physician enters a prescription for the patient ...Can cabbage help prevent cervical cancer?
...he University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. At the moment only women with borderline or mildly abnormal smears are being invited to participate, however, if a positive result is seen the research may be extended to include different groups of women, for example those with more severe abnormalities on their ...Surgery without the scapel: U. Va. Health System marks fifteenth anniversary of Gamma knife
...al anesthesia in a U.Va. operating room. "From the moment patients arrive to the moment of discharge, the Gamma Knife experience at U.Va. is smoothly run," Sheehan said. "What we offer in...New technique scans electrical 'brainscape'
...s on the internal state of the brain at that given moment of time, and what behavior the animal is using to sample the environment. With this new technique we can monitor such states as attention and expectation and how they modulate how the animal processes that incoming information." According...Success of new treatment halts international blood pressure drug trial
...o suffer from high blood pressure. Although at the moment we are unable to provide any definite figures on the effectiveness of the new treatments compared with the old, we have seen important significant differences." The Steering Committee of ASCOT accepted on 18 November the recommendation of its...ER patients with substance abuse treatment need incur higher health care costs
... department visit itself can represent a teachable moment for a patient." The researchers estimated that 27 percent of adult emergency department patients in Tennessee have unmet substance abuse need. Compared to patients without substance abuse treatment need, patients with unmet need were younger, more l...Finding lymph node metastases in cancer
...tion of the most appropriate treatment. But at the moment many staging techniques either require surgery or are not sufficiently accurate. The authors used extremely small magnetic particles (called nanoparticles) that homed to lymph nodes, and then tracked the nodes using MRI. In a study in 70 patients ...2005: A critical year for action towards millennium development goals
...ight in the first article how 2005 marks a pivotal moment in international efforts to fight extreme poverty. The Millennium Development Goals, borne of the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, address extreme poverty in its many dimensions--income poverty, hunger, disease, lack of adequate shelter, and exclusion--...Referrals to palliative care come too late to improve quality of life for cancer patients
...care services can be given at the most appropriate moment for the patient." Palliative care treats the physical, spiritual, psychological, and social needs of a person with cancer, both during cancer treatment and at the end of life. Researchers in Japan gave detailed questionnaires to 318 family members ...ESC releases the first European Guidelines on Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI)
...d of PCI, the ESC feels that it is the appropriate moment to review the data released to date and offer guid...ng this recent peak in activity, it is the optimal moment to issue these Guidelines and we expect that our recommendations should remain valid for at least tw...Pitt marks 50th anniversary of its Salk polio vaccine with reunion, scientific symposium
...for the 21st Century This day also will include a moment of remembrance and re-enactment of the April 12, 1955, announcement that the polio vaccine was ready for widespread use with John Troan, former reporter and editor for the Pittsburgh Press, and the dedication of an historical marker honoring the Salk...